Closed BurningTheSky closed 4 years ago
you're seeing the checksum error because your entire SBR content is zero'd out and you have 0xFF for your SAS address section, which isn't needed by the way for the LSI or Dell firmwares.
is this a card that you previously wrote the empty SBR on to?
The only thing I've done was follow various guides to flash to IT mode. Shall I just write a copy of the Dell H200 SBR onto it? Or should I do something else?
A lot of guides out there have you wipe the SBR because they don't know any better.
If you have an H200 you should use that SBR. For other cards probably the sas9211-8i_itir.cfg sample is a closer config. Change any settings you want changed, build them with sbrtool, and flash them.
Of course, if the card is otherwise working fine, you can also choose not to care and just leave the SBR blank, which means it will use default settings for everything. But it's not really a state that any "normal" card should be in, it's just something a lot of guides have latched on to because it happens to work for flashing to IT mode.
Right, that makes sense. It does sound like that's what the guide suggested. Thanks for the advice, I have copied the H200 SBR and removed the SAS address, I booted into unraid and it could see a single disk with smart data so I think it's all working now! Thanks!
I'm not the biggest Linux/CentOS user so please bear with me... I cloned and did a make on the files here, I unbound then halted the card, extracted the SBR and now I'm running into issues. When I parsed the SBR to a CFG file everything is pretty much zeroed out except the address which is all F's, any ideas what I have done wrong or what I am missing?